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by rjknight 14y ago
And not just here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sexism?s=t http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexism I think it's worth pointing out that the definitions you're using are relatively uncommon. That doesn't make them wrong, but it d
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Some industries or professions are male-dominated because the industry itself has been around for a long time and thus has historically been male-dominated. Weirdly, those industries are probably diversifying faster than IT because they we
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I might feel that I can be open with you about my alcoholism and drug abuse if I know that this will be kept confidential . It's a confusingly-written sentence but it's not an invalid concept.
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Do you want to be righteous or do you want to be persuasive? If you want to be persuasive, you appeal to people's better nature. You don't tell them that their cherished ideals of rationalism and no-bullshit, all-about-the-code ethos are a
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I think, in this case, being confrontational is the right thing to do (though I don't think you should have to engage in a confrontation if you don't want to). Most people (despite the arguments here, which are mostly about either semantics
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Hmm. The number of apologists is actually quite small, in my experience. I think the problem here is that most of the people here are men, who have no real idea what being on the receiving end of sexual or sexually-motivated harassment is
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Who are these people? I mean, really, what the fuck? It seems hardly a week goes by without someone bringing forward a genuinely awful case of harassment, abuse, or worse, and that's only the stories horrible enough to make the front pag
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It might not be the responsibility of the oppressed to educate their oppressors, but who else is going to do it? I agree that the "booth babe" situation is sexist (and I also happen to think it's incredibly stupid - semi-naked women are not
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by rjknight 14y ago
The "fathers" to "sons" thing I get, but you have to be straight and white to have an incorrect interpretation of feminism these days? I am _genuinely_ confused by this. Not trolling, I just don't understand this aspect of the discourse.
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These days, the pre-emptive "cue the usual slew of comments..." happen first. Then someone feels they have to defend the tech industry against these silly generalisations, and the prophecy is fulfilled.
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I'm worried that saying "there's a trope for this" is now becoming a trope. "It's a trope" isn't anywhere near as good an argument as "what you just said is really dumb and here's why".
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Maybe since they can't really upgrade beyond the major version of 10... Where can you go from there? Where?
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"Because, why not?" OK, I'll bite. What follows is devil's advocacy, so be warned. On the whole, it would be better for the world if you wrote something that provided either novel functionality or improved functionality over the existing c
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Before computers, people had to figure out incredibly inventive ways of producing sound and video effects in music and movies. Just consider what it took to create some of the great audiovisual works of the pre-1980s! But computers came a
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by rjknight 14y ago
Isn't the OP describing the world as the older generation wanted it to be? If you had asked some programming luminaries in the early 80s what they expected from programming 30 years later, they would have said "it will be more abstract,
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View and edit Google calendars from your terminal(github.com)
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What are the particularly bad bits? Gnome 3.4 feels OK to me - it happens to be a good fit for the "large number of low-resolution monitors" setup I'm currently enduring, as each monitor can have a separate full-screen app, which seems to b
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by rjknight 14y ago
Hopefully Gnome 3.6 will be a bit more mature and address some of the concerns people have with it, although MATE is now a first-class package in the Fedora repository for those who can't stand Gnome 3. Looking at the feature list, there ar
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Fedora 18 "Spherical Cow" released(fedoraproject.org)
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Even if you're right, the word you are looking for is "impatience", not "greed".
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This submission really should have kept the original title of the post.
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This makes me miss programming in C.
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I think this person probably didn't want to use their real name (fair enough, these debates can get vitriolic) but wanted to make it clear that they're familiar with the ongoing debate about this topic on HN (I think it has come up enough t
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by rjknight 14y ago
This is interesting because most people like me have assumed that the next great debate about guns and technology would be about 3D printing, but it's interesting to see that some people still think there's a debate to be had about whether
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Connecticut town drive will collect and destroy violent video games(theverge.com)
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"The truth is that it's a lot easier to fake having the potential to be a CEO than it is to fake having the potential to be a CTO." That's easy to say when you're a developer and understand what makes a good CTO. There are probably a lot o
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Nobel winner slates Britain's 'stupid' immigration reforms(independent.co.uk)
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This is correct. Everyone is an individual and no two people are, strictly speaking, equal. But that doesn't justify all instances of treating people differently. If I steal from you, you would expect me to receive the same punishment as
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by rjknight 14y ago
I'm seriously not trying to undermine you here, but there's a massive empathy failure across this entire thread and I think this needs to be pointed out. What you mean when you say "racism" is not what the parent means. The dictionary defi
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I hope it's not written in the same code these guys are using! OK, that was a bit snarky, but this site's design definitely feels too "clever" and, weirdly, looks like something that might have escaped from a time tunnel to 2006. Since the

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